Posted on 07/10/2015 10:43:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Rising sea levels have been mostly measured in inches in the past decades, but scientists said they could increase more than 20 feet in the future as global warming continues to melt ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica.
The dire projections are based on a look back at the climate record, with scientists finding that increases of 20 feet have happened at least twice over the past 3 million years when temperatures were very similar to what they are today.
Peter Clark, an Oregon State paleoclimatologist and another co-author of the study, said that because current carbon dioxide levels are as high as they were 3 million years ago, "we are already committed to a certain amount of sea level rise."
"The ominous aspect to this is that CO2 levels are continuing to rise, so we are entering uncharted territory," Clark said. "What is not as certain is the time frame, which is less well-constrained. We could be talking many centuries to a few millennia to see the full impact of melting ice sheets."
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That’s a lot of water!
ABC in the mid-2000’s said New York would be under water by June 2015.
CBS was jealous and wanted in on this.
“We could be talking many centuries to a few millennia to see the full impact of melting ice sheets”
GASP!
I filled a couple of 55 gallon drums of water for my rain barrel project..... so I am helping a little.
Save that headline for 3535 when they can extrapolate the 1 foot rise to project when the remaining 19 feet will be realized.
How? Polar ice caps melting? The earth has a finite amount of water. It is either gas, liquid, or solid. The earth is like a container; you fill it with ice and add enough water to float the ice to the brim. What happens when the ice melts?
Why hasn’t it happened already, where it was predicted the sea would rise that much by 2000, or 2010? Or 2012? Guess they are just like the doomsday preachers on the street. Making up new trash every day.
I thought I read just yesterday Antarctica ice is at record highs.
Or 50, or 100, or 500. Just pick a number. It’s just as reliable.
Ice in water, sure, but ice on land will melt and run into somewhere else. Still, however, the rise will not be allthat substantial considering how much water is currently in the ocean compared to inland and mountain glaciers.
As Dennis Miller would say: “If my yawn got any bigger they’d have to assign it a hurricane name.”
In what? Another 20 million years? So what?
It's for the children!!
Proven wrong every time as their chicken-little predictions fail to ever materialize, the warmies become ever more shrill.
These people are truly amazing.
STOP IT! You’re injecting facts and science when mere emotion is called for.
You should be banished to a museum or something.
Another flood. We are all going to die. What a crock of BS.
So therefore I need to give more taxes to my government to avoid this potential catastrophe?
If California would build the appropriate number of freshwater reservoirs that they need the oceans would recede and the problem would be solved.
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